Robinson, John William

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193 ROBINSON John William

Victor John William Robinson, WWI 53524, Army
Item: R20807022, Agency: AABK, Series: 18805 , Accession: W5550, Box: 86, Record No: 99018
Archives NZ, Wellington

Marriage Details
1916/1597, Bride: Irene Damaris Cattell-Webb, Groom: John William Robinson - Date of Marriage 16/11/1916 from Marriage Registration

Diocese of Wellington receipt book shows
Receipt No: 507, Received from Mrs J W Robinson the sum of 3 pounds for the exclusive right of burial in and the right to enclose or erect a memorial upon that piece of ground being part of the Church of England Burial Ground at Taita numbered Section Plots 134 & 135 New Survey, on the plan of the Burial Ground in the custody of the Board of Managers of the said Burial Ground, the said piece of ground to be held by the said Mrs John (hard to read) Robinson subject to the rules and regulations for the time being in force for the management of the said Burial Ground.
Signed on behalf of the Board of Managers of the Taita Burial Ground.
Dated this 19th day of November 1949.
J C Davies
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Death Details
1949/30118, John William Robinson, Aged: 76Y - Date of Death 25/10/1949 from Death Registration

Evening Post 25 October 1949
ROBINSON.- On October 24, 1949, at the Hutt Hospital, Rev. J. W. Robinson, loved husband of Irene Robinson, of 42 Laing''s Rd., Lower Hutt; aged 76 years. Funeral will leave the St. James Church, Woburn Rd., Lower Hutt, Thursday, October 27, 1949, at conclusion of a service, commencing at 2pm, for the Taita Churchyard Cemetery. J. R. Croft, Ltd., Lower Hutt.
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Evening Post 26 October 1949
Rev. J. W. Robinson
The death occurred at the Hutt Hospital on Monday of the Rev. John William Robinson, a well-known Anglican Minister, who during his career served in various parts of the North Island, also in England.
Mr. Robinson, who was 76, came to New Zealand with his parents in 1886, and worked for some years on his father''s fruit farm at Upper Moutere, Nelson. While in the Nelson Province he was an energetic lay worker. In 1913 he was ordained at Napier by Bishop (now Archbishop) Averill, the then Bishop of Waiapu, and immediately assumed charge of the mission at the railway construction camps at Matawai. In 1914 he was appointed assistant curate in the parish of Kilbirnie, Wellington, where her served until 1916. He was married at Kilbirnie in 1916 to Miss Irene Cattell-Webb, and in the same year became vicar of Raetihi, where he served until 1919. From Raetihi he was appointed vicar of Waimate North, in the Auckland diocese, and in 1925 became vicar of Huntly, where he served until 1929, in which year he became the first vicar of Norfolk Island, where he remained until he left for England in 1933. In England he served as rector of Shereford and vicar of Toftrees in the diocese of Norwich. Mr. Robinson served in the late war as chief air raid warden of his district. He retired in 1946, and came to live in Lower Hutt, where he gave valuable assistance in the parish of St. James.
Mr. Robinson was keenly interested in cricket and was vice-president of the Lower Hutt Cricket Club at the time of his death. He was also a Freemason and was at one time chaplain of Lodge Taupiri, in the Waikato.
During the latter part of his life Mr. Robinson was afflicted with deafness, which precluded his taking a prominent part in many of his wide interests. He was known as a devout and faithful parish priest, and made a lasting impression wherever he served. His genial and sympathetic nature won him many friends during his ministry. Beside his widow he leaves two sisters, Miss Robinson and Mrs. Hardy, both of Brooklyn.
The funeral will take place from St. James''s Church, Lower Hutt, tomorrow, after a service beginning at 2pm.